Christopher Columbus’ final official resting place revealed — and researchers say they now know explorer’s ethnicity
Columbus died in what is now Spain in 1506, but he supposedly wanted to be buried on the island of Hispaniola, which is made ...
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Christopher Columbus brought a host of terrible new diseases to the New World
Of the estimated 250,000 natives in Hispaniola, Columbus' first stop in the Americas in 1492, new infectious diseases wiped out a staggering 236,000 indigenous people by 1517 — nearly 95% of ...
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Why do some Massachusetts lawmakers want to change Columbus Day?
When Columbus arrived in Hispaniola, or modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in December 1492, he encountered an indigenous population. Historical accounts read that the indigenous people ...